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Shakespeare Matters - A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing
Shakespeare Matters - A Little
Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing
    If the mere mention of
    Shakespeare fills you
    with dread, evoking
    memories of arduous
    afternoons spent in
    stuffy classrooms with
    eccentric English
    teachers, it is time to
    reconsider. Let Portico's
    second title in the
    '...Matters' series
    rekindle your interest in
    the great bard,
    demonstrating that far
    from being three-hour
    marathons of
    unintelligible boring
    rubbish, Shakespeare's
    plays are in fact
    exciting, tragic, funny
    and often downright rude
    - full of memorable
    plots, great insults,
    filthy jokes and
    eccentric characters.
    'Shakespeare Matters'
    lets you know the
    essentials, as well as
    providing you with a
    wealth of facts and
    trivia to amuse, impress
    and entertain (at school,
    in a seminar or down the
    pub). Succinct, pithy
    entries cover everything
    from Shakespeare's
    greatest villains to his
    most cutting insult
    (hint: it involves your
    mum). As a playwright,
    he is truly a global
    figure - his work has
    been translated into more
    than 70 of the world's
    languages, including
    Latin, ancient Greek and
    even Klingon. Did you
    know, however, that
    Shakespeare's influence
    even extends into the
    outer reaches of our
    solar system? 24 of
    Uranus' 27 moons are
    named after Shakespeare
    characters. The hundreds
    of entries range from the
    truly enlightening to the
    utterly obscure in this
    comprehensive guide that
    will re-introduce you to
    the fascinating world of
    Shakespeare's work.
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The Enid Blyton Collection: 6 Book Box Set
The Enid Blyton Collection: 6
Book Box Set

    Six best-selling books
    from one of the world’s
    most famous children’s
    authors of all time!
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The Lost World and Other Stories
The Lost World And Other
Stories
    These lively, varied and
    thought-provoking
    science-fiction stories
    (from the era of Jules
    Verne and H. G. Wells)
    are linked by their
    imposing central
    character, the
    pugnaciously adventurous
    and outrageous Professor
    Challenger. The Lost
    World (forebear of
    Jurassic Park) vividly
    depicts a perilous region
    in which the explorers
    confront creatures from
    the prehistoric era. The
    Poison Belt presents an
    eerie doomsday scenario,
    while 'The Disintegration
    Machine' satirically
    comments on scientific
    cynicism. In 'When the
    World Screamed', the
    planet responds violently
    to an experimental
    incursion. The strangest
    item is The Land of Mist,
    which seeks to reconcile
    science with
    spiritualism. This
    memorable collection
    provides imaginative
    entertainment,
    entrancing escapism and
    bold provocation.
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The Floating Admiral by Members of the Detection Club
The Floating Admiral By
Members Of The Detection Club
    Agatha Christie, Dorothy
    L. Sayers, G.K.
    Chesterton and nine other
    writers from the
    legendary Detection Club
    collaborate in this
    fiendishly clever but
    forgotten crime novel
    first published 80 years
    ago. Inspector Rudge does
    not encounter many cases
    of murder in the sleepy
    seaside town of
    Whynmouth. But when an
    old sailor lands a rowing
    boat containing a fresh
    corpse with a stab wound
    to the chest, the
    Inspector's investigation
    immediately comes up
    against several
    obstacles. The vicar,
    whose boat the body was
    found in, is clearly
    withholding information,
    and the victim's niece
    has disappeared. There is
    clearly more to this case
    than meets the eye ? even
    the identity of the
    victim is called into
    doubt. Inspector Rudge
    begins to wonder just how
    many people have
    contributed to this
    extraordinary crime and
    whether he will ever
    unravel it? In 1931,
    Agatha Christie, Dorothy
    L. Sayers and ten other
    crime writers from the
    newly-formed ?Detection
    Club? collaborated in
    publishing a unique crime
    novel. In a literary game
    of consequences, each
    author would write one
    chapter, leaving G.K.
    Chesterton to write a
    typically paradoxical
    prologue and Anthony
    Berkeley to tie up all
    the loose ends. In
    addition, each of the
    authors provided their
    own solution in a sealed
    envelope, all of which
    appeared at the end of
    the book, with Agatha
    Christies ingenious
    conclusion acknowledged
    at the time to be ?enough
    to make the book worth
    buying on its own?. The
    authors of this novel
    are: G. K. Chesterton,
    Canon Victor Whitechurch,
    G. D. H. Cole and
    Margaret Cole, Henry
    Wade, Agatha Christie,
    John Rhode, Milward
    Kennedy, Dorothy L.
    Sayers, Ronald Knox,
    Freeman Wills Crofts,
    Edgar Jepson, Clemence
    Dane and Anthony
    Berkeley.
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